Transportation

Uber signals second bid to enter Vancouver market

Critics say car-sharing service has unfair advantage over traditional taxi companies

Oct 13, 2015 2:00 PM Read more >

‘Alberta invasion’ across B.C. border driven by oil downturn

Their trucks bearing red and white plates idle outside of all-night restaurants, hotels and gas stations, destined for...

Oct 13, 2015 10:13 AM Read more >

Bus, taxi, transit businesses on collision course with Uber options

As I write this, the City of Vancouver is about to get a report from a multi-party roundtable on a safe route to regulating vehicles for hire through the intersection of a panting Uber and a taxi owners’ lawsuit.

Oct 13, 2015 12:00 AM Read more >

Road pricing referendum needed, says Premier Christy Clark

Without a new vote, property tax is the mayors’ only option, she said

Oct 9, 2015 11:18 AM Read more >

Well-known labour mediators appointed as port trucking commissioners

The Port of Vancouver's trucker employment saga continues, with a new container trucking commissioner and a deputy commissioner announced October 6

Oct 7, 2015 11:12 AM Read more >

NDP pledges federal funding for ferries if elected; critics say offer falls flat

The New Democratic Party announced October 5 that should the party form the next federal government, BC Ferries would...

Oct 6, 2015 10:13 AM Read more >

Harper’s Surrey LRT pledge hinges on regional funding

$700 million federal election campaign promise only part of city’s rapid transit puzzle

Oct 6, 2015 12:00 AM Read more >

Should a viaduct run through it? Vancouver city council to decide soon

Cost of demolishing downtown arteries is up, but so is support for the plan ahead of council vote this month

Oct 5, 2015 9:47 AM Read more >

Vancouver port truckers could be owed "millions" in back pay: union

The roots of the dispute go back to the one-month strike in March 2014 that brought Vancouver's port to a standstill

Sep 29, 2015 3:22 PM Read more >

Downtown Vancouver-to-Victoria catamaran service could begin next summer

Australia’s Riverside Marine has confirmed it is planning daily catamaran sailings between...

Sep 29, 2015 11:11 AM Read more >